Motivational Quotes

Life

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

- Crowley, Aleister

Best Quotes about Life

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey